Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car Culture

Seven Ways Technology Is Rendering the Automobile Obsolete

By Tanya Snyder | May 15, 2013 | No Comments

As we try to understand why young people are so much less jazzed about driving than previous generations, one possible explanation always comes up: Kids today just love their smart phones. That is part of it. But the full picture is far more nuanced. The internet, and the ability to carry it wherever you go, […]

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Millennials Will Drive More as They Age, But Still Less Than Their Parents

By Tanya Snyder | May 15, 2013 | No Comments

At some point over the past few years, a lot of my friends started moving to Silver Spring and Takoma Park and Falls Church. These inner-ring, transit-connected suburbs of DC are still far less compact and walkable than the neighborhoods my friends moved from. So they bought cars. Why did they do this? They’re entering […]

Queens Auto Dealer: Buy a Car, Get Heart Disease

By Brad Aaron | Feb 26, 2013 | 7 Comments

Clarence spotted this ad for a used car dealership in Monday’s Daily News. We can’t decide what we like best about it — the “trade in your shoes for cardiovascular disease” concept or the fact that it includes transit directions to the lot, in Long Island City. Either way, it’s refreshing to see a little […]

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Ford Tries to Sell More Cars By Looking to a Future With Fewer Cars

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 14, 2012 | No Comments

Ford has spent the last few years fretting about how to reach out to Gen Y. The car company made news earlier this year when it re-designed its 2015 Mustang to appeal to buyers born between 1980 and 1999. (Apparently Gen Y just screams “shark-nosed grille and round headlights” to Ford.) Last year, Ford turned to […]

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World’s Most Entitled Driver Sentenced to Wear “Idiot” Sign

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 7, 2012 | No Comments

Need a break from election coverage? Check out this shoo-in for the bad driver hall of fame: In an attempt to avoid waiting behind a school bus unloading children, a Cleveland-area woman was caught driving on the sidewalk. But after some unorthodox punishment, handed down by a local judge, we’re guessing 32-year-old Shena Hardin won’t […]

Teenagers’ Cars Are the Gifts That Keep on Wreaking Havoc

By Charles Komanoff | Oct 16, 2012 | 21 Comments

The multiple-teenager-fatality car crash remains a sad staple of journalism. And no wonder. The instant loss of several lives is so dreadful and the death of a young person so poignant that the combination is shattering. When a car-full of teens crash and die, the article can almost be assembled by rote: the devastated families, […]

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